掲示板 Forums - What other languages do you speak?

I'm a native English speaker, but my parents claim that Mandarin Chinese was my first language. My Chinese now is pretty much shot since I have no exposure to it, but my parents have sent me to Chinese school and I took some classes in HS and University. I've also studied Latin in middle and high school for around 6 years, but pretty much forgot most of it. Japanese would have to be my best language after English, but compared to the others that's not saying much ^^; I like to say I speak Chipanglish XD

If I remember correctly, this topic was given somewhere in the "Let's talk" section. So if your Japanese is already good enough, you might find some answers and post your reply there. As for me, when I started watching anime, I developed a certain interest in Japanese culture. Later my friend asked me to join her in studying Japanese. While she gave up very soon, I kept going on more or less. Now, I my goal is to watch Japanese movies without those annoying subs, read Japanese literature, and talk to my friend in his native language. It's my dream to go to Japan one day and, if somehow possible, stay there for a while (not just a vacation). Then I would need to know some Japanese of course ;D

Going to Japan?are you not scared of that Karlla?A friend of mine told me that they make you work until you die ;D Another friend told me that at a place called Square-Enix they used to work 18 hours per day & sleep in the office ;D ;D Thx Snowflake,I go to check that topic :)

Mother tongue: Telugu National Language: Hindi Obligatory speaking/writing language: English and Japanese at an intermediate level (?) I see a lot of people here love learning languages like me. :D

English :D I use Japanese when I am with my Japanese friends, watch Japanese TV, read magazines, etc. Can also speak Korean. I have studied French, Mandarin, Spanish. I study Vietnamese, Japanese sign language.

German at home Spanish as I was born in South America English is my main language now in Australia I also am fluent in Hebrew and understand some French, Portugese, Italian and Arabic. And a little Japanese now too！

Russian - mother tongue German - quite close to a native speaker level I guess, since I've lived and also studied in Germany for the last 7 years English is okay, but could have been better. But of all these languages, Japanese is my favorite one, the love of my life, "my sun and stars" etc >:D I just really wish I started learning it much earlier, not just a year ago :(

Spanish: Native. English: Fluent, but with a latinamerican accent, according to many english-speakers I've met around. Japanese: Er... I'd love to say intermediate, but it's been difficult to study x.x along with my career and job. Italian: studied two years, was able to read and write... talking not so fluent.

[list] [li]Russian: native.[/li] [li]Latvian: close to native (deteriorates a bit when I haven’t use it for a while). I was born in Latvia and have lived there my whole life, except that for the last three years I’ve been spending half a year in England to attend university. I’ve gone to both Russian and Latvian kindergartens and schools; the whole story is a mess. And then the last two years of high school were kind of bilingual Latvian and English.[/li] [li]English: pretty good, but I keep feeling as if I’m always making silly mistakes. And I’m sure I do at times, but perhaps not as often as I think (I hope!). I’ve studied English since my first year of primary school, and I’ve always been interested in computers and the Internet, which probably helped. In high school I enrolled in a mostly English-language course as mentioned above, and now I’m in my fourth year at university in England. I feel I make more mistakes in speaking than in writing, and I often end up inserting small pauses between phrases and words as I’m thinking of the next thing to say.[/li] [li]Japanese: I think I could now do JLPT N3 but probably not N2. I was amazed when I tried the short sample test for N1 on the website and couldn’t do any of the first part but could rather easily handle Listening. I had two semesters of lessons with a teacher (who wasn’t a native speaker) at some point, but other than that I’ve only studied on my own.[/li] [li]German: I did 6 years of German in school. I was good for the first, uh, three years and a bit. I wasn’t particularly bad after that either, but I remember little of it now. I think I could probably still use some of it if I actually needed it though.[/li] [li]French: weeeell, technically, I’ve done like two years of French. But I don’t think we even finished a textbook intended for one year in that time, and this was about ten years ago anyway, so I’ve long forgotten everything except maybe a few random words.[/li] [li]Random other languages: random tiny bits and pieces of vocabulary, grammar, spelling, pronunciation…[/li] [/list] [quote author=kjulia28 link=topic_id=5534&post_id=29640#rmsg_29640 date=1375783139]All languages except German and English seem to be stored on the same hard disc, because whenever I have to speak French these days, only Japanese comes out at first.[/quote]Oh, I have the same thing with German. Even though I started learning German before Japanese and was good at it for a while!

Tamil - Native English - Fluent. Native Level Hindi - pretty basic Japanese - Intermediate I guess